CONCEPT LIST

Define latent learning

Explain the neuron doctrine

Differentiate action potential and neurotransmitters

Define feature detectors

Differentiate specificity and population coding

Explain localization of function

Explain the importance of double dissociation 

Define distributed representation

Differentiate sensation and perception

Note factors that make pattern recognition more difficult (inverse projection, image clutter, object variety, variable views)

Differentiate bottom-up and top-down processing

Define perceptual set

Define closure

Explain Bayesian Inference (prior probability and likelihood)

Define Plasticity

Define the Stroop task and why people have difficulty with it

Define change blindness and inattentional blindness

Explain the binding problem of attention

Explain the isolated features/combined feature effect

Explain the feature present/feature absent effect

Differentiate recall and recognition

Differentiate sensory, short-term/working, and long-term memory

Differentiate declarative/explicit and procedural/implicit memory

Differentiate episodic and semantic memory

Differentiate proactive and retroactive interference

Note how many units of information Miller suggested we can store in working memory

Explain apparent motion

Differentiate the components of working memory (phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad)

Define object permanence

Explain the serial position effect (primacy and recency)

Differentiate retrograde and anterograde amnesia

Define priming

Define the propaganda effect and the mere exposure effect

Explain what was learned from studying Henry Molaison and Clive Wearing